A Flexible Low-Latency Metro-Access Converged Network Approach Based on Time-Synchronized TWDM-PON
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Li, Jialong; Hua, Nan; Yu, Yufang; Zhong, Zhizhen; Zheng, Xiaoping; Zhou, Bingkun
- Source
- 2018 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exposition (OFC) Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exposition (OFC), 2018. :1-3 Mar, 2018
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Computer architecture
Passive optical networks
Delays
Optical network units
Optical switches
Synchronization
Optical transmitters
- Language
A flexible time-synchronized TWDM-PON (TS-TWDM-PON) architecture is proposed and implemented for low-latency metro-access communication. Results show that a two-order-of-magnitude reduction in end-to-end delay can be achieved with the new TS-TWDM-PON architecture.